The debate will matter for Romney. He has the most to gain.
Yes.
Tonight I happened to turn on Huckabee, He and some guy were discussing how Romney should act in the debate.
They were saying how does Romney handle it and show respect for the office of the president.
Oh geez, why should he go overboard respecting a lyin’ communist?
If Obama does very poorly and makes numerous mistakes, it will become an issue and it may get beyond the MSM’s ability to cover for him. President Ford stating that Poland was not dominated by the Soviets really hurt him in the close 1976 election. Obama does tend to make mistakes even when given softballs without the teleprompter.
Oh, most importantly: In four years, the idiot "Republicans" on the Presidential Debate Commission will continue to allow liberals to ask, omit, moderate, and spin the questions, and conservatives will play no role. And the Republican candidate will still show up to take a beating.
If we had another candidate...Newt, Michele Bachmann or some other Conservative with backbone and confidence in themselves and a love for our country and serious about winning I’d say YES..
The differences would be obvious..and the debater would be a joy to behold as Obama got slugged repeatedly..
But we’re stuck with Willard with his fixed smile and his fear of normal people and his entitlement and his betterthanyouness and his lifelong Liberalism...
and the similarities are too glaringly out there to be any good for our side...
Will Willard buy some male gumption and take on Obama ???
Well he cant in the social issues ...abortion, same sex marriage, gays in the military..
and he cant for global warming, illegal aliens and AMNESTY, cap N trade, 2A, military, Iran..
He may be able to fake Israel, until he blows it...
and he may be able to blow smoke about his background in business, until he gets exposed in some asrteas...
So whats left ???
Oh he looks just like his Daddy, Big George, so “presidential” ...and about as old...
Yes he could probably wing it on his faded aged matinee idol “looks” bvut thats about it...
I’ll watch the debate Wednesday night but I expect Nixon to rise from his grave and slap Willard for being worse than he was in 1960...
Only for those you actually watch them. For those relying on the msm for the results will get a very skewed report in Obama’s favor.
If anyone is undecided in this weird parallel universe, they will probably miss election day because they are at the movies or a club...drinking or snorting.
The terminally stupid "Free Obamaphone" types will be watching Dancing with the Chefs or something anyway, so the MSM reporting that nobody saw the debates can be safely ignored - the interested, and persuadable, will tune in.
Here is how the debate can turn out well for Romney no matter what.
Every freeper and his/her like minded friends should, immediately after the debate, donate a minimum of $5 to Romney. I haven’t even donated to Romney yet a all because I wasn’t a fan. But I don’t want him to beat Obama, I NEED him to beat Obama.
If everyone skipped a latte, a lunch, a gallon of gas (walk to the store once), or if they can, donate more, we could show that Romney turned things around even if Romney sat there on his hands the whole time. For the Romney camp to be able to say that a million rolled in after the debate would be HUGE. Even HUGH.
It is the only way to counteract the media spin. They can talk til their cheeks ache about how Romney didn’t deliver, but if all of us on the right donate, it will be seen as a Romney win.
A debate panel of liberal media hacks throwing all the crap they can at Romney and lobbing softballs to Obama ... yeah this will liven things up!
All that jazz, Jazz, ain’t gonna matter!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhx8e9j7r0w
Mind, this isn't when he was running for governor of Massachusetts, but the 2008 Republican Presidential Debates.
Yeah, the debates will be critical; Romney will spout off things to tick off his supposed base, sing a duet of Kumbya with Obama, and then agree with the moderator about how Tea Party members are extremists who don't represent even a fraction of the electorate.
Maybe I'll be wrong, but I doubt it.
I have stopped watching debates. I find them to be utterly vapid and worthless, not even entertainment.
I had the misfortune to watch a segment of the last Brown-Warren debate, and she would say things like “Experts say I am 76% more effective at cutting taxes than Scott Brown would be.”
I was dumbfounded. The object was to talk as fast as you can and spout statistics that can neither be checked nor debated. If someone does a fact check later, nobody hears about it.
Plus, one only needs to view the composition of the panels to know that, as a conservative, they aren’t there to help you in any way, and the situation is likely very different for your opponent.
Romney has always done better in the debates during the primaries. I think he’ll really shine.
How is it possible that we have almost the exact same scenario as in 2008? Because the so-called GOP-e is also an extension of America's fifth column and the "enemy within."
How can America's future be hanging on Mitt Romney and his clueless campaign? How can America possibly survive if somehow, unbelievably, Obama gets in there for another four years? If Obama does get in, we'll probably soon forget about Obama because we'll too busy fighting the U.N's Agenda 21 and the NWO takeover.
Reagan's "Morning in America" has too quickly become Obama's "Midnight in America" (and the world).
That's the bad news. The good news if you're a believer in Jesus Christ, is that this will surely hasten Jesus' return for His own before the end of the world when God judges the world. We will be spared the horrors of God's wrath that will be poured out on the earth. And seven years later, we'll return in triumph with Jesus who, as King of Kings and Lord of Lords, will rule the earth as the Prince of Peace. He'll do it right and show that what man could only do for a couple of hundred years every so often throughout the history of mans fairly miserable record, He will do for a thousand years. Can't wait. Be ready - He's coming soon.
No.
Obama can’t lose and Romney can’t win.
Debates can be useful in stalling Obama’s upward momentum. It is the carpet bombing negative ads and the GOTV that will reverse the momentum back to Romney.
I’d be willing to wager Obama cancels his debate.
Or he finds some way to do it remotely or with a substitute, like maybe the Obama animatronic figure at Walt Disneyworld?
I have to agree with the article. I’ve seen debates boost candidates and sink candidates, but those are rare. Typically, people see what they want to see in debates.
I remember thinking I lived on Mars when Lloyd Bensten mopped the floor with Quayle. I was active in the Bush campaign at a local level at the time, and couldn’t believe how many other volunteers were blinded to his pathetic performance.
Over time, I’ve come to realize that’s how the vast majority of voters see debates. A candidate says one or two things they agree with, so they instantly internalize a feeling of victory.